Software Development Manager, Pet Insurance

Our Team:
Chewy's Pet Health is on a mission to build innovative solutions for our customers and our partner vets, such as our recent launch of Chewy's first Telehealth service and Pet Insurance. Engineering plays a meaningful role in defining and implementing our platform roadmap. We take time to understand the "why" before we start crafting up the "how." We celebrate engineering successes and promote blameless and continuous learning and improvement in engineering culture. We set the bar high for delivering production-ready code by adopting CI/CD and DevOps engineering best practices. Our engineers are encouraged to contribute ideas and code to our own platform and to other partner teams.
Your Role:
As a Software Development Manager (SDM) on the Pet Insurance team in Boston, MA, you will lead a team of skilled engineers to build and maintain scalable high-performance software solutions for Chewy's Pet Insurance product. You will collaborate with vendors, product managers and designers to help pet parents learn about various insurance plans and purchase one giving them peace of mind for nose to tail care. As the leader of a dynamic team, this role offers a tremendous opportunity for professional growth in the leading online pet retailer in the US.
Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead a team of 6-8 software engineers responsible for building Chewy's Pet Insurance initiatives
• Review system architecture, design, and implementations, and provide feedback to individual contributors
• Develop, maintain, and improve upon a culture of operational excellence with consistent, repeatable processes and standards
• Partner with our recruiting team to continue hiring your team and mentor the growth of the current hardworking team
• Drive technical decisions and work with your partner TPM to plan, track, and deliver software projects
• Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams
• Collaborate with others in Engineering Management to drive standard methodologies in software design, development, testing, and production deployment
• Work with your technical product manager and product owners to balance delivery of forward-looking roadmap initiatives with the existing backlog of iterative improvements and maintenance, in partnership with multiple support multiple teams
• Identify and lead team priorities and deliveries within the context of overall Chewy objectives

Minimum Qualifications:

• Demonstrated history of implementing and managing multiple, significant software development projects
• 3+ years of experience in formal Engineering Management of direct reports
• 3+ years of experience in Full Stack Software Development as a software engineer or architect (this is a role that requires in-depth knowledge of both backend systems and front-end applications)
• Experience managing both high and low performers, including promoting within your team(s)
• Proven delivery experience working under an Agile/Scrum methodology
• Prior hands-on experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems
• Strong communication skills with both technical and business audiences
• Bachelor's degree in computer science (or a related field) or equivalent work experience.
• Position may require travel

Preferred:

• Experience in e-commerce or Healthcare
• Experience delivering projects via Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
• Relevant Java ecosystem experience- preferably Spring Boot based applications
• Relevant experience in front-end frameworks, preferably ReactJS
• Relevant experience with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services, Terraform, HELM, Ansible, etc)

Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact [email protected].
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